Awning-fixture.



No. 890,000. PATENTED JUNE 0, 1900.

' J. WILKINSON.

AWNING HXTURE. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8, 1907.

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JOSEPH wILxINsON, or SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. 1

AWNING-FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented .Tune 9, 1908.

Application filed November 8, 1907. Serial No. 401,220.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that l, Josnrn WILKINSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Clark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Awning-Fixtures, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to awning fixtures such as are usually employed for securing an awning to a building or other support.

The object of the invention is to provide a 'fixture of this character which will support both the awning rod with the fabric of the awning extended about the same and the cord guides or pulleys for operating the awning; from which the awning rod can be removed without detaching the fixture from the support and which will be provided with means for supporting the pulleys, which means will be of such a character that the ulleys or guides can be readily attached thereto when the fixture is detached from the support, but from which the pulleys can not be removed after the fixture has once been attached to the support.

Vith these objects in view my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and in certain parts and combinations hereinafter to be described, and then more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Tn the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an awning equipped with my improved fixtures; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the fixture; Fig. 3 is a side elevation thereof; Fig. 4 is vertical sectional view, taken on the line of Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the fixture in a hori- Zontal position.

In these drawings T have illustrated the preferred form of my invention, in which it is shown as comprising a supporting plate or base 1 adapted to be secured to a flat, or substantially at, surface by means of screws engaging the screw holes 2 formed in said base. This base is provided with a suitable support for the awning rod or cord 3 about which the fabric of the awning is extended. This support preferably comprises suitable clamping mechanism, which, in the present instance, comprises a projection 4 extending outwardly from a point near the upper end of the plate 1 and preferably having its face inclined downwardly and outwardly, as shown, and provided near the lower edge thereof with a transverse groove or bearing recess 5 adapted to receive the rod. A suitable closure extends over this bearing recess and is adapted to clamp the rod therein. As here shown, this closure consists of a plate 6 adapted'to be secured to the face of the projection 4 and having near the outer end thereof a transverse groove or recess 7 adapted to register with the bearing recess 5 and cooperate therewith in securing the rod in position.

The base 1 preferably has formed therein, in the rear of the projection 4, a recess 8 adapted to receive the head 9 of a bolt 10 which extends through the face of said projection and through the plate or closure 6 and is provided with suitable locking means, such as the thumb nut 11, for securing the closure 6 upon the face of the projection 4. This plate is provided, preferably at a point below the support for the awning rod, with suitable means for supporting the pulleys or guides for the operating cords of the awning. This supporting means preferably consists of one or Inore hooks 12 secured at one end to the plate 1 and extending outwardly therefrom, thence inwardly and upwardly to a point at one side of said plate and in substantially the same plane therewith. Thus, when the plate is in position against a flat surface, the end of the hook 12 will lie so close to the su porting surface that it would be impossib to remove the pulley therefrom. But, when the plate has been detached from the supporting surface, this pulley may be readily removed therefrom. Further, the point of this hook being inclined upwardly in the preferred form of the same, the strain on the pulley `is brought to bear on the hook at a point near its point of connection to the plate or base 1. V

The 'fixture is equally well adapted to be mounted on a vertical or a horizontal surface, and the curve of the hook, or hooks, is such that when the fixture is mounted in a horizontal position, the pulley will be retained thereon and will be supported in such a position as to bring the strain on the hook close to the plate 1.

Thus, it will be seen that l have provided an awning of this character which is adapted to support both the awning rod, which carries the upper edge of the awning fabric, and the pulleys or guides for the operating cords, the support for the rod being in the form of a clamping mechanism which can be readily the supporting surface as to close the end ofA the hoo and prevent the removal of the pulley from the hook while the base is so secured.

I wish it to be understood that I do not i desire to be limited to the exact details of construction shown and described, for obvious modifications will occur to a person skilled in the art.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A fixture of the character described comprising a base adapted to be secured to a flat surface, a support for an awning rod carried thereby, and a hook secured to said base at a point beneath said support and independent thereof and having its free end in substantially the same plane with said base.

2. A fixture of the character described comprising a base adapted to be secured to a fiat surface, a support for an awning rod carried thereby, and hooks secured to said base extending outwardly therefrom on opposite sides of' said support, thence inwardly to a point in substantially the same plane with said base.

3. A fixture of the character described comprising a base adapted to be secured to a flat surface, a support for an awning rod carried by one end thereof, and hooks extending outwardly on opposite sides of the other end thereof and having their free ends in substan* tially the same plane with said base.

4. In a fixture of the character described,

the combination, with a base adapted to be secured to a supporting surface, a projection extending outwardly from said base and hav ing a bearing recess, a detachable closure for said bearing recess, and a hook having one end secured to said base near said projection and independent thereof and having its other end near said supporting surface.

5. A fixture ofA the character described comprising a base, a projection on said base having a downwardly inclined upper surface provided with a bearing recess, a bolt carried y said base, a detachable closure for said bearing recess having an aperture adapted to receive said bolt, a nut for said bolt, and a hook carried by said base.

6. A fixture of the character described comprising a base, a projection on said base having a downwardly inclined upper surface i provided with a bearing recess, a plate adapted to be secured to said inclined surface and having a recess adapted to register with the bearing recess in said plate, and a hook secured at one end to said base and having its other end in substantially the same plane with said base.

7. A fixture of the character described comprising a base, a projection on said base having a bearing recess, a detachable closure for said bearing recess, said base having a recess in the rear of said projection, a bolt having its head located in the recess in said base and extending through said projection and said closure, and a hook havingoner end secured to said base and its other end located in substantially the same plane as said base.

' In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH WILKINSON.

I/Vitnesses:

FRANCIS M. HAGAN, Jr., l EDWARD L. REED. 

